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M Archive
After the End of the World ale xis pauline gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a
Following the innovative collection Spill,
poet, independent scholar, and
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive—the
activist. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, also published by
M Archive
second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts
Duke University Press; coedi‑
that speculatively documents the persis‑
tor of Revolutionary Mothering:
tence of Black life following a worldwide
Love on the Front Lines; and
cataclysm. Engaging with the work of
the founder and director of Eternal Summer of the Black
the foundational Black feminist theorist
Feminist Mind, an educational program based in Durham,
M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the
North Carolina.
trajectory of Gumbs’s acclaimed visionary
Af ter the e nd of t he W or l d
fiction short story “Evidence,” M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of
A le x is PAul i ne Gumbs
the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while
examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics.
“Reading this gift of writing I keep gasping! Is Alexis writing from the bottom of the ocean, or the far-off future, or from inside the mind of God-is-change? How does she see everything so clearly? How does she make such incredible connections for us? This writing is generous and genius. It feels like fiction that taps into the deepest vein of sentience, that is also instantly sacred text. Thank you, Alexis, and bless you.”— adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds “Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a brilliant, highly original theorization of the impact of
also by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
a dystopic reality on black consciousness and black bodies, asking: how will they act as archives of the end of the world as we know it? By articulating black bodies as critical sites of archival knowledge, Gumbs reads them beyond historic notions of catastrophic suffering as racialized subjects.”— ALEXIS DE VEAUX , author of Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity paper, $22.95tr / £18.99 978-0-8223-6272-2 / 2016 Available as an e-book
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March 248 pages, 8 illustrations paper, 978‑0‑8223‑7084‑0, $24.95tr/£20.99 cloth, 978‑0‑8223‑7069‑7, $94.95/£79.00 Available as an e‑book